Ford release a new orange colour: Octane

[XR8MAD]

Originally Posted by CSV_LS1

I've been told by someone that has seen it that it's the same colour as used on the Mustang GTR concept from a couple of years back.

That car turns me on......................... :

[MYT]

There have been four of xr's floating around at Ford in geelong for the last 2 months in octane, they looked like the orange on the xr5 at night

[MAFIA]

OMG that mustang is an absolute weapon. I want one!!!

:monkes:

I must say I LIKE IT

[AUIII XR8 MAN]

I quite like that colour & that Mustang is dam hot!

[Falcon Freak]

First there was Blood Orange. Then there was Mandarin. Now the new orange is called Octane. Check it out at http://www.fpv.com.au/configureprice.aspx

FF

[NZ]

Its halfway between blood orange and rapid

[WILDTRAKPX2]

yeah, it's been out for a while now.

Quite a few pics etc here:

http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=55616

[vztrt]

Seen it in the flesh, the MK1 orange was better.

[Falcon Freak]

Another example of a thread not correctly titled. I did a search for Octane before I started my thread.

Well now all I need to do is to convince myself to do it - that is to get a BF2 XR8 in Octane with six speed manual for my next company car.

What do you think chich?

FF

[Jet-Star]

makes it look more like a muscle car I recon

[stevz]

I'm not a fan of it. Reminds me of the old Telecom company cars of the 1980's.

[ratman]

Haven't seen one in the flesh yet but it looks a lot like the colour on my XY - 'Surfer orange,' was first released with the XWs, needs stripes to give that little bit extra I reckon & more in keeping with the 70s muscle car colour schemes.

[rushing on acid]

there is another new colour oming out with the bf 2 i done know the name yet but a friend of mine took a photo of it in the car park at ford ( he works for them ) and it looks like a slightly darker version of the old teal glow colour the xw and xy's had

[Martyvan]

Originally Posted by Jesse06

makes it look more like a muscle car I recon

Looks like a Yellow Cab with stripes in Brisbane ;)

[Auslandau]

Well thanx you so bloody much for putting a link like that on. After spending about 3 minutes I think I have ordered one in the Octane with all the options! Going to get shot by the mrs when it arrives...............hope they knew I was only dreaming when I pushed the 'Order now' button!



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[Venomous]

Originally Posted by Falcon Freak

Another example of a thread not correctly titled. I did a search for Octane before I started my thread.

It actually was named properly if you pay attention to what is writen in the first post. The guy wasn't sure what the colour was called.

[DJM83]

Originally Posted by auslandau

Well thanx you so bloody much for putting a link like that on. After spending about 3 minutes I think I have ordered one in the Octane with all the options! Going to get shot by the mrs when it arrives...............hope they knew I was only dreaming when I pushed the 'Order now' button!

hahaha thats gold

[deesun]

Send that one straight to the pool room. I'd have it.

[b2tf]

Ive seen Octane and its a very pastelly sort of colour, not metallic at all, but it looks awesome. Id have one for sure.

[EF, What else?]

Dont mind it at all, looks sweet

[MAGPIE]

Originally Posted by Falcon Freak

Another example of a thread not correctly titled.

FF

Pull your head in, what are you the "Thread Title" Police _

As for Octane, who comes up with these stupid names.... there is already an Octane Blue being used in the Mondeo range :

[uranium_death]

What name do you recommend?

I think "Baby Vomit", "Orange Puke" or maybe "Cooked Carrot" are three nice, marketable names.

But seriously, I don't mind it. It is a bit different, but it isn't bad.

[Professor Farnsworth]

you must remember the colours usually look nothing like they do in the flesh. I don't really like the octane paint, i see they have another one called 'breeze' there too, which looks horrible. Also notice they're discontinuing mercury silver, bout time, way too many mercury falcons out there. Also menace is going... thank god!

[Bucknaked]

Originally Posted by LSTerritoryGhia

NO MORE MENANCE!!

Thank the Lord!

Shockwave must nearly be on the way out to, its coming up for its 2nd birthday next month :( My old XR6 will be 2.

That makes 2 of us.

[JD86]

im yet to see this colour in the flesh, but i like how it looks in the pics

[flappist]

Well pure petrol without artificial colouring in it is a straweyish brownyish orange so I suspect that is where the named comes from. Shame there is bugger all octane in petrol

[Fingers]

Originally Posted by XR8MAD

Vitamin C it was called. My ol man used to have one that color.


:sm_headba HEY CHARGER!!!!!!!! LOL

There were both colours on the R/T Charger. hemi Orange and Vitamin C.

[Toxic Beast]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

What name do you recommend?

I think "Baby Vomit", "Orange Puke" or maybe "Cooked Carrot" are three nice, marketable names.

But seriously, I don't mind it. It is a bit different, but it isn't bad.

DIARHEA..

anyways... if you fellas look on ford.com.au on teh exterior colours, you will see theres like a fair few more NEW colours .

[Pinkbits]

Well as mentioned in my first post, i was back at Ford this morning and saw two BF utes, one an XR8 the other XR6 in the rear carpark. This time they were painted in a colour similar to "everglade" in the E series, any one shed some light?

Whilst in the same carpark i noticed an area cordoned off, what really got my attention was the red VE SS and what looked like a VE base model. This time i had my camera phone ready to take some pics, but i thought i had better move on as the guy coming towards me from where the cars were did not look very happy at all!!
Do you think they were going to do their own research and testing?